Without love even the most radical devotion to God is of no value to Him. Let me make sure that sinks in… You can gain all the spiritual gifts in the world. You can take the most radical steps of obedience. You can share every meal with the homeles...
It is one thing to understand the gospel but is quite another to experience the gospel in such a way that it fundamentally changes us and becomes the source of our identity and security.
My identity and my security are not in my spiritual progress. My identity and my security are in God’s acceptance of me given as a gift in Christ.
Being able to articulate the gospel with accuracy is one thing; having its truth captivate your soul is quite another.
A Christianity that does not have as its primary focus the deepening of passions for God is a false Christianity, no matter how zealously it seeks conversions or how forcefully it advocates righteous behavior.
As we see the beauty of God and feel His weightiness in our hearts, our hearts begin to desire Him more than we desire sin. Before the Bible says, "Stop sinning," it says, "Behold your God.
What would your prayers look like if you believed that the cross really was the measure of God's compassion for someone?
We are changed not by being told what we need to do for God, but by hearing the news about what God has done for us.
It’s not that I didn’t understand or believe the gospel before. I did. But the truth of the gospel hadn’t moved from my mind to my heart. There was a huge gap between my intellect and my emotions. The Puritan Jonathan Edwards likened his reawak...
When something becomes so important to you that it drives your behavior and commands your emotions, you are worshipping it.
Gospel change is the Spirit of God using the story of God to make the beauty of God come alive in our hearts
The gospel has done its work in us when we crave God more than we crave everything else in life and when seeing His kingdom advance in the lives of others gives us more joy than anything we could own. When we see Jesus as greater than anything the wo...
In a post-Christian, skeptical age, love on display is the most convincing apologetic.
Awe combined with intimacy is the essence of Christian worship.
